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A GENERIC REVISION OF THE LACHNEIDÆ (LASIOCAMPIDÆ)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Harrison G. Dyar
Affiliation:
Washington, D. C.

Extract

The genera of the same regions are included in the present paper as in a former one on Hypogymnidæ (Can. Ent., XXIX., 12). The palæarctic Lachneids of the old world have been admirably treated by Aurivillius (Iris, Dresden, vii., 121–185), and I am indebted to his work for valuable information, as well as to the works of Kirby and Hampson. In going over the literature I did not always confirm Kirby's types of the genera; but rather than disturb the matter again, I have accepted them as modified by Aurivillius; but with the restoration of Hübner's Tentamen names, I drop Gastropacha, as it is a synonym of Lasiocampa, being proposed in the same sense to include all the species of the family. Following Wallengren, I separate catax and rimicola from Eriogaster as defined by Aurivillius for convenience in the table, though I do not doubt that the venation is as variable as Aurivillius states (Iris, vii., 147). I cannot separate the new genus Paralebeda, Auriv., from Odonestis by anything that is stated.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1898

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References

* This name should not be confounded with Trichura, Hubn., a genus of the Euchromiidæ.

Kirby (page 813) and Aurivillius are entirely at variance as to the type of this genus. I follow the latter author; not having seen the original work.

Staudingeria is preoccupied in the Pyralidæ.